Month: December 2014

Top Ten Tuesday #16: Santa, Bring Me These!

December 23, 2014 / 6 Comments / Posted by Tiff @ Mostly YA Lit in Top Ten Tuesday
Top Ten Tuesday #16: Santa, Bring Me These!

I’m so crazy behind on my blogging (sorry, guys), but I couldn’t miss this Top Ten Tuesday! So here, I present you with the books and book-related stuff I’m dying for Santa to bring me:  Everything Leads to You by Nina Lacour: I’ve heard amazing things about this book and the cover is gorgeous. Desperate for it! This One Summer by Jillian and Mariko Tamaki: This is Canadian, it made everyone’s favourite graphic novels of the year, and it just sounds and looks so sweet. To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before by Jenny Han: I liked Jenny Han’s Summer […]

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GIVEAWAY CONTEST: Win a 2014 Holiday Book or December new release!

December 15, 2014 / 92 Comments / Posted by Tiff @ Mostly YA Lit in Uncategorized
GIVEAWAY CONTEST: Win a 2014 Holiday Book or December new release!

Hi all, happy holidays! Hope you’re all getting in the spirit – we got our first Christmas tree ever in our new house. It’s pretty sweet. =) Anyway, you know the drill: I’m giving away one young adult, middle grade, or new adult book released this month. I’m also throwing in one Christmas book – and if you have another that was released in 2014 that is a YA, MG, or NA, you’re welcome to ask for that because…holidays. =) In the interest of not making myself crazy, I’m only posting covers for the ones I’m super interested in reading, […]

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Waiting on Wednesday: All We Have Is Now by Lisa Schroeder

December 10, 2014 / 7 Comments / Posted by Tiff @ Mostly YA Lit in Book Memes, Uncategorized, Waiting on Wednesday
Waiting on Wednesday: All We Have Is Now by Lisa Schroeder

All We Have Is Now Author: Lisa Schroeder  Publisher: Scholastic Expected publication date: July 28th 2015 What do you do with your last day on earth? Just over twenty-four hours are left until an asteroid strikes North America, and for Emerson and everyone else who didn’t leave, the world will end. But Emerson’s world already ended when she ran away from home. Since then, she has lived on the streets, relying on her wits and on her friend Vince to help her find places to sleep and food to eat. The city’s quieter now that most people are gone, and no […]

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“Teardrops on My Guitar” Review: No Place to Fall by Jaye Robin Brown

December 9, 2014 / 3 Comments / Posted by Tiff @ Mostly YA Lit in Review, Uncategorized
“Teardrops on My Guitar” Review: No Place to Fall by Jaye Robin Brown

No Place to FallAuthor: Jaye Robin Brown (website | twitter) Publisher: Harper TeenSource/Format: ARC provided by Harper Collins Canada (thank you!)Publication date: December 9th 2014 (today!) My rating: 2.5 out of 5 stars.  Buy it: Indigo.ca | Amazon.ca | Amazon.com | B&N | IndieBound | Google Books | iTunes Amber Vaughn is a good girl. She sings solos at church, babysits her nephew after school, and spends every Friday night hanging out at her best friend Devon’s house. It’s only when Amber goes exploring in the woods near her home, singing camp songs with the hikers she meets on the Appalachian Trail, that she feels free—and when […]

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The ISLAND series by Viv Daniels: Covers Revealed!

December 3, 2014 / 2 Comments / Posted by Tiff @ Mostly YA Lit in Uncategorized
The ISLAND series by Viv Daniels: Covers Revealed!

Covers created by Vania Stoyanova of VLC Productions Hi guys, today I’m helping promote Viv Daniels’ ISLAND series – this is a series of five full-length New Adult contemporary romances set on an island in the South Pacific… Having read and adored Viv’s first NA contemporary, One & Only and quite enjoyed her darker NA holiday story Hear Me, as well as her alter ego Diana Peterfreund’s many novels, I’m very, very glad to be helping reveal these smoking hot covers.  Here’s the thing, though: as hot as these covers are, I have no doubt that what’s between the sheets (ahem) will […]

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Top Ten Tuesday #15: Books I’m Looking Forward To In 2015

December 2, 2014 / 9 Comments / Posted by Tiff @ Mostly YA Lit in Top Ten Tuesday, Uncategorized
Top Ten Tuesday #15: Books I’m Looking Forward To In 2015

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted at The Broke and the Bookish to highlight a top ten list related to book blogging, and to get to know fellow book bloggers. Talking about my most anticipated books is like talking about my favourite people or trips I can’t wait to take – there are always too many, and I just gush. So here are my most anticipated reads from most to least “OMG-gotta-have-it” – let the gushing commence…now! 1. I Was Here by Gayle Forman (January 27, 2015; Viking Juvenile):  When her best friend Meg drinks a bottle of […]

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